Drive Sitgreaves Pass, Arizona

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Sitgreaves Pass is along the old Route 66 and tops out at 3,550 feet. The pass was named for Captain Lorenzo Sitgreaves, who traveled through the area in 1851. It's a very narrow, two-lane blacktop with no shoulders, crazy switchbacks and steep drop-offs plunging thousands of feet down. There are memorials to deceased people whose cremains are scattered at the site. Sitgreaves Pass remains a popular stopping point because one can see the states of Arizona, California, and Nevada from the viewpoint. The Summit Gas Station and Ice Cream store was once located at the top of Sitgreaves Pass, on a wide spot on the Kingman side of the road. All that’s left of the Summit today are some iron bolts and crumbling foundation remains as it burnt to the ground in 1967.

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